Life Is Like Canadian Football And Other Authentic Folk Songs

Author : Henry Adam Svec
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988784700

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Life Is Like Canadian Football and Other Authentic Folk Songs by Henry Adam Svec Pdf

A grossly inaccurate memoir about Canadian folk legends. Henry Adam Svec has been pushing boundaries in Canadian folklore since he unearthed songs by CFL players in Library and Archives Canada, thereby thrusting himself into the scene--and the media spotlight. Those spartan poems are finally included in this anthology, in addition to the fruits of his subsequent expeditions, but there is much more besides, including honest accounts of the folklorist's myriad trials and tribulations. This experimental and genre-defying book mixes the adventurous energies of Alan Lomax and Stompin' Tom, the intertextual conceptualism of Vladimir Nabokov and Mark Z. Danielewski, and the searing intensity of Elizabeth Smart and Chris Kraus.

Author : Erin Morton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780228013280

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Unsettling Canadian Art History by Erin Morton Pdf

Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, Unsettling Canadian Art History addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada. This collection offers new avenues for scholarship on art, archives, and creative practice by rethinking histories of Canadian colonialisms from Black, Indigenous, racialized, feminist, queer, trans, and Two-Spirit perspectives. Writing across many positionalities, contributors offer chapters that disrupt colonial archives of art and culture, excavating and reconstructing radical Black, Indigenous, and racialized diasporic creation and experience. Exploring the racist frameworks that continue to erase histories of violence and resistance, this book imagines the expansive possibilities of a decolonial future. Unsettling Canadian Art History affirms the importance of collaborative conversations and work in the effort to unsettle scholarship in Canadian art and culture.

Author : Adam Lauder
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780228019749

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Variable Conditions by Adam Lauder Pdf

Variable Conditions recovers and explores early Canadian encounters between computational media and contemporary art in the late twentieth century, charting a network of developments linking meteorology, computation, and the arts that arose long before the age of cloud computing. Essays uncover the material conditions that shaped the emergence of computational arts in Canada, from projects executed by mainframe to digital paintings and analog synthesizer performances. A surprising number of institutional circumstances granted access to early computer hardware – government nuclear and hydroelectric infrastructure, agencies as diverse as the National Film Board and the National Research Council, and a myriad of university settings across the country – and creative conditions varied from benign administrative neglect to the artistic exploration of randomness or a distinct emphasis on thematizing transformation as a motor for graphic visualization and auditory exploration. Interviews featuring leading artists give first-hand insight into artistic practices and the historical moment in which they occurred. The book provides valuable new perspectives on computer art pioneers such as Leslie Mezei, Robert Adrian X, Suzanne Duquet, Roger Vilder, and Vera Frenkel, as well as new contexts for understanding Michael Snow and IAIN BAXTER&. Not limiting their explorations to art generated using computers, contributors outline the integration of computational techniques and concepts into artistic methods across disciplines and trace computation’s emergence as a matter of interest and concern for a range of contemporary cultural producers. Combining historical analyses with theoretical approaches to computation and its entanglement with contemporary cultural discourses and social movements, Variable Conditions excavates the origins of computational arts and, in the process, sketches a new landscape of interdisciplinary creation and surprising connections between scientific and artistic institutions.

Author : Will Kaufman,Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1228 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851094363

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Britain and the Americas [3 volumes] by Will Kaufman,Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson Pdf

A comprehensive encyclopedia covering the close ties between Britain and the whole of the Americas, examining Britain's cultural and political legacy to the nations of the New World. From Vikings to redcoats, from the Beatles to the war in Iraq, Britain and the Americas examines Britain's cultural and political legacy to the nations of the Americas. This comprehensive survey also traces how the Americas have in turn influenced contemporary Britain from the Americanization of language and politics to the impact of music and migration from the West Indies. Complete with an extensive introduction and a chronology of key events, this three-volume encyclopedia contains introductory essays focusing on the four prime areas of British Atlantic engagement—Canada, the Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America. Students of a wide range of disciplines, as well as the lay reader, will appreciate this exhaustive survey, which traces the common themes of British policy and influence throughout the Americas and highlights how Britain has in turn benefited from the influence of American democracy, technology, culture and politics.

Author : Helmut Kallmann,Gilles Potvin,Kenneth Winters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015012779685

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Encyclopedia of Music in Canada by Helmut Kallmann,Gilles Potvin,Kenneth Winters Pdf

**** This monumental work, first published in 1981, is a comprehensive guide to all aspects, historical and current, of popular, folk, religious, concert, and other forms of music in Canada, and is cited in BCL3, Sheehy, and Walford. The present revised and updated edition adds 820 new entries, and expands such entries as ethnomusicology and the discography sections throughout. Some 200 old entries have been eliminated, others condensed. Warning: this reference is habit-forming. 9.25x12.25". Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Henry Adam Svec
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789048535859

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American Folk Music as Tactical Media by Henry Adam Svec Pdf

This book draws on the fields of media archaeology, performance studies, and sound studies to explore the various modes of communication that can be uncovered from the long American folk revival.

Author : Samantha Garner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988784719

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The Quiet Is Loud by Samantha Garner Pdf

The perfect marriage of literary and speculative fiction for readers of Kazuo Ishiguro and NK Jemisin. When Freya Tanangco was ten, she dreamed of her mother's death right before it happened. That's when she realized she was a veker, someone with enhanced mental abilities and who is scorned as a result. Freya's adult life has been spent in hiding: from the troubled literary legacy created by her author father, and from the scrutiny of a society in which vekers often meet with violence. When her prophetic dreams take a dangerous turn, Freya finds herself increasingly forced to sacrifice her own anonymity--and the fragile safety that comes with it--in order to protect those around her. Interwoven with themes of Filipino Canadian and mixed-race identity, fantastical elements from Norse and Filipino mythology, and tarot card symbolism, The Quiet Is Loud is an intergenerational tale of familial love and betrayal, and what happens when we refuse to let others tell our stories for us.

Author : Iain Banks
Publisher : Random House
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781448183432

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Raw Spirit by Iain Banks Pdf

A fascinating journey through Scotland's famous distilleries with legendary author Iain Banks No true Scotsman can resist the allure of the nation's whisky distilleries. In an absorbing voyage as interesting to non-drinkers as to true whisky connoisseurs, sci-fi and literary author Iain Banks explores the rich heritage of Scottish whisky, from the largest and most famous distilleries to the smallest, most obscure operations. Whisky is more than a drink: it's a culture, a binder that joins together people, places and products far across Scotland's rugged terrain. Switching from cars to ferries to bicycles, Banks crisscrosses his homeland, weaving an engrossing narrative from the strange people, fascinating traditions, and downright bizarre places he encounters on his journey down Scotland's great golden road.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Canada
ISBN : IND:30000129687061

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Canada by Anonim Pdf

Author : Simon Bronner
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813134079

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Explaining Traditions by Simon Bronner Pdf

Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out the importance of rituals and customs in the development of identity, heritage, and community. In Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture, Simon J. Bronner discusses the underlying reasons for the continuing significance of traditions, delving into their social and psychological roles in everyday life, from old-time crafts to folk creativity on the Internet. Challenging prevailing notions of tradition as a relic of the past, Explaining Traditions provides deep insight into the nuances and purposes of living traditions in relation to modernity. Bronner’s work forces readers to examine their own traditions and imparts a better understanding of raging controversies over the sustainability of traditions in the modern world.

Author : Timothy L. Gall,Jeneen Hobby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Reference
ISBN : PSU:000067311385

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Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life: Americas by Timothy L. Gall,Jeneen Hobby Pdf

Provides information on the cultures of the world, covering different areas of daily life including clothing, food, language and religion.

Author : J. Lyons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137376800

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America in the British Imagination by J. Lyons Pdf

How was American culture disseminated into Britain? Why did many British citizens embrace American customs? And what picture did they form of American society and politics? This engaging and wide-ranging history explores these and other questions about the U.S.'s cultural and political influence on British society in the post-World War II period.

Author : Cath Howe
Publisher : Nosy Crow
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781788000345

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Ella on the Outside by Cath Howe Pdf

Ella is the new girl at school. She doesn't know anyone and she doesn't have any friends. And she has a terrible secret. Ella can't believe her luck when Lydia, the most popular girl in school, decides to be her new best friend - but what does Lydia really want? And what does it all have to do with Molly, the quiet, shy girl who won't talk to anyone? A gripping story of lies, friendship, and blackmail... "A perfectly-pitched, thoughtful story with a big heart." - Katherine Woodfine, author of The Clockwork Sparrow Also by Cath Howe: Not My Fault How to be Me

Author : Mark Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0228827787

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Of Stars and Strings by Mark Miller Pdf

"I'm not a working musician," the legendary Canadian jazz guitarist Sonny Greenwich once declared. "When I decide to play, I play to awake people spiritually. That's the only reason." For that, and for his stirring, distinctively linear style, he was hailed in 1970 as "the Coltrane of guitar players." In truth, though, Greenwich made music entirely on his own transcendent terms in the course of an uncompromising 50-year career that took him from the smallest of clubs in Toronto and Montreal to the Village Vanguard and Carnegie Hall in New York and back. Of Stars and Strings is an engaging study of a rare Canadian original, and a valuable contribution by Mark Miller to the history of jazz in Canada.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023129450

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music by Colin Larkin Pdf

The aim of this book is to provide a complete handbook of information and opinion about the history of the music of the 1950s. There are over 1000 entries on the bands, musicians, songwriters, producers and record labels of this decade, everyone who had any significant impact on the postwar music culture which gave birth to rock and roll. From Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Chuck Berry and Frank Sinatra to the Everley Brothers, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and Elvis Presley, this encyclopaedia aims to answer any query about any aspect of 50s music. As well as the giants of the decade, the book also includes those artists who flourished briefly such as Frankie Ford and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.